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Mylapore Club’s colloquium

CHENNAI: The Mylapore Club will organise a unique colloquium entitled ‘How mind-sport can shape your future’ at the club premises on July 15.

The event will bring together current World chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India’s most successful bridge player in the last decade K.R. Venkatramanan in a discussion on how mind-sports like chess and bridge can help young people in their academic life and their future career, it was announced at a press conference here on Friday.

The event will be presided over by M.A.M. Ramaswamy, the president of the Mylapore Club, while Ram Santhanam of the TVS group, Ramesh Rangarajan of The Hindu, D.V. Sundar, Secretary of the All India Chess Federation and Sherien Ryan, Seceretary of the Tamil Nadu Bridge Association, will be the other speakers.

Sarabeshwaran, an executive committee member of the Mylapore Club, said that the low infrastructure requirements and the easier accessibility of these sports were distinct advantages that must be stressed in popularising them.

Sherien Ryan said that teachers had a significant role in making a sport like bridge popular and also in terms of distancing it from the stigma associated with gambling that card games suffer from. — Sports Reporter

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